Neill Blomkamp on what volumetric capture brought to his new horror film, ‘Demonic’
The filmmaker talks to befores & afters about venturing into vol-cap and real-time.
das element: new asset library software for visual effects
Here's how the new tool can manage and organize your VFX element library, including with machine learning.
VFX Artifacts: The alpha channel and Alvy Ray Smith
The computer graphics pioneer goes deep on RGBA.
Weta Digital on how they made those raging rapids in ‘Jungle Cruise’
Water sims, CG environments…and lots of bubbles.
Tech Weeklies: New news from Nvidia, Autodesk, Epic, Chaos and Adobe
The latest in VFX and animation tech.
The VFX behind that ‘Dad jokes’ scene in ‘Jungle Cruise’
How they filmed The Rock and his passengers as they go for a boat ride.
The secrets behind specialist jobs in animation and VFX
A breakdown of some of the key specific industry roles, from industry pros.
VFX Notes: Ep 5 – The Suicide Squad, Jungle Cruise, Old, and de-ageing VFX
Notes on the latest films and techniques.
Telling an all-CG animated Japanese samurai story, when live-action wasn’t possible
How Neil Biondich used Reallusion’s Character Creator and iClone for ‘Chiburi’.
Designing the sacred timeline in ‘Loki’
How Cantina Creative made the timeline, as well as those morphing He Who Remains figures.
VFX Futures: Where are we at with virtual production?
Boom! Another VFX podcast show from befores & afters!
Gene Kelly’s performances were a direct source of reference for the animators on ‘Vivo’
Also, how to animate a kinkajou, a snake and 2D-looking sequences in 3D.
Here’s where you can download ‘production-ready’ CG assets from VFX, anim and game engine studios
Thanks to Animal Logic, WDAS, Pixar, Oats, Unity and Epic.
‘You just described a movie that’s got eight pipelines in it and eight different looks!’
How Imageworks tackled the look and feel of ‘Vivo’.
Creative studio Taylor James breaks down boundaries with AWS
Cloud-based workflow brings scalable capacity, access to global talent and seamless remote collaboration.
VFX Firsts: The first film to use an all-CG photoreal character
Could this breakthrough film with VFX from ILM contain yet another first?
Meet the SIGGRAPH 2021 Featured Speakers: your guide to their sessions
Animation studios, deep fakes, math, interactive gaming, animals and robots!
Possible spoilers: Watch this VFX breakdown for ‘Lamb’
Great work done here by Edisen (formerly The Chimney Group).
‘Loki’ visual effects supervisor Dan DeLeeuw on the hardest scene to pull off in the show
He also talks about the retro feel to the VFX, filling bluescreens with final shots, and offers his thoughts on LED volume shooting.
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Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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